Mackenzie's+Subjective+Language+Scale

Subjective Reaction Scale

Directions: Assume that you are the personnel director in charge of hiring all employees for a large factory and that the following sentences were each written by different people applying for jobs. Assign to each statement the letter of the job you think the applicant qualifies for. You wouldn't, of course, hire someone just on the basis of writing ability, but we are here measuring writing qualifications only. Your Decision means that the writer could be hired for that job and all jobs below it, but could not-because of his or her writing-hold any jobs above that level.

A. Communications director

B. Office worker

C. Salesperson

D. Factory supervisor

E. Factory worker

F. None of these

I. It's been much too long since we last talked, and I'm really looking forward to your visit. A

2. He always be messing around, so I just stop the weakly allowance. B

3. Mr. Robbins who lived next door to us did not paint his house for fifteen years. D

4. Baxter didn't like nothing about Army life. D

5. I told the [@#$] I'd kick his butt if he didn't leave Sally alone. C

6. George say he in trouble over that report. E

7. Jerry Rutherford was a broad-faced, heavy-set Irish boy who was the bully of the block, his favorite pastime seemed to be terrorizing boys only half his size. A

8. Moses may have led the jews out of egypt, but it was Golda Meir who let the arabs know that israel would never be conquered again. F

9. I walk to school every day that first year at Barnsely, E

10. I have never known anyone who could play chess with Mr. Dodds without losing patience. A

I I. He was studing hard to learn the issues because he wanted to be elected the class canidate. D

12. He was trying to give me a snow job, but I wasn't about to be sucked in. B

13. She left the party before anybody. Because she had to be home before midnight. D

14. According to Belsham, one outstanding trait of the selfless person is the willingness to fight for a just cause a cause in which he or she stands to gain little and lose much. A

15. A list of students whose health records indicate that such noted information should be brought to the attention of the college instructors will be kept in the office of Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith. B

16. I gave him $30 & he only gave me back $5. B

17. He said he didn't see nobody around the store last night. D

18. I am desirous of meeting her, and when I do, I shall tell her how much we enjoy her music. A

19. I got so mad that I told her to bug off. C

20. It should not, I think, be too much of a strain on your resources(although I know that we are all under the burden of a tight budget) to furnish the required materials so that the project deadline can be met, thus forestalling other contractual penalties. A

21. Although Bill was the youngest member there. He didn't even offer to go to the store for her. D

22. The latter half of the nineteenth century saw an enormous effort directed toward adjusting, after Darwin's The Origin of the Species, to changed notions of humanity'S relation to the rest of God's living creatures and hence to changed notions of the nature of humanity. C

23. The teacher had the tesses turned wrong-side-up on our desses when we came in the room. E

24. I should think it presumptuous of you to allow your predilection for bizarre clothing to alter the formality of this occasion. A

25. Mr. Juard was the nicest person I've ever met he would always have a big smile and warm hello for everyone in the building. E